Combined shoe-buttoner and shoe-horn.



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\ APPLIUATION FILED HABQlS, 1907.

903 ,320. Patented Nov. 10, 1908.

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UNTTED STATES PATENT oFFicn SYLV'ESTRE J. RIVOIRE, OFMONROE-,.LOUISIANA.

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Specifica-tion of Letters Patent.

Application ma umh is, i901. semi No. seam.

'To all whom tnmey concern:

Be it known that I, SYLVESTRE Jesi-:en

` RIvOmE, a citizen of the United States, rc-

`Shoe ButtonfHookCombined.

adapted-for'buttoning shoes in the ordinary manner. l I am aware that itis not new broadly to com-bine iii. a single article a shoe liorn andhook, but such devices, so-far as I know, usually comprise complicatedstruct-ure and such as is undesirable by reason of the expense'iiivolved iii the manufacture. thereof, the coniplicated constructioninvolved, or other features of disadvantage.

The object of my invention is to provides structure' ofthe utmostsimplicity which can be as cheaply manufactured :is tlie'ordinarv shoehorn, and in which the structure is inteu"ral-.and inade in the n iostinexpensive way laooking at the same from A5the lstandpoint ofmanufacture. l

YToobtain a clear compreliensioiiof the details of construction oftheinvention, reference is to be had to the following description and tothe accom aiiying drawings, iii which Figure .1 is 'a p anrview of thedeviceenb. bodying the invention, land Fig. 2 is an edge view ofthesame.

4Throughout the following detail description and on these-veral figuresot' the draw.-

\ ings similar parts are referred to by like reference characters.

Referring to the drawings the character A indicates the shoe horn orbody of the device which'constitutes virtuallyaJiaiidle, iindat one -endol' which is fornied'tlie hook B.

curved vm cross section heilig eoiiiparzitively arish of Ouachita, and

The i `horn iicurves longitudinally und is also end at which is providedthe hook B. When the hook B is used the horn or body A is employed. as aha die by vwhich the. device isl grasped to facilitate the operation ofbuttoniiig shoes, or the like. In -usin the-deviennel a' shoe horn -thesmall end o thesame 1s grasped in an obvious manner.

` wide. at one eiid and tapering at the-"ther It wi 1l be noted that thehook B is arranged in substantially the saine laneA as the body' of thedevice and is preerably somewhat,"

heavier l'or thicker.V The arrangement of hook is necessary within thecontemplation of the invention, in order that the-devicemsy 4- beeonstructedas cheaply as possible inthe' manufact-ure thereof.

In the ,iiiaiiufacture of the invention itisA l conteinpla-ted that thehorn and lio'ok shall be made from a fiat piece' of metalwhicli ispressed into the shape' descr, i namelyv curving longitudinally andii'ic'ross section or transversely, the hook being cut out with a dieconstructed forthe purpose Y and struck up to shape.

The simplicity of my invention its value as a cominci-cial article willbeappl'eciated in view of the foregoing.

Having thus described Athe invent-ion, whatis claimed as new is Asaiiarticle of manufacture, acombinedshoe horn and butt'oiiing devicecoin rising a body of sheet metal 'wide at one en( andtapermg at theother ei d und pressed so 'as to curve longitudinallyand in transversesection at its larger end portion, the smalle-r end 'of the body beingformed with aii'iiitegral lioolt cut out of'thef metal and lyingiii'substanti'all)Y the phiiie of Ithe metal forming the bodv, siiidhook being thicker than the ody of t iedevice, substniitialtv :isdescribed.

s. J. RIVOIRE.

'itiiesses W. A. Mix-rrr, B. Il. l'iilroii.

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